If the Thames is anything like the Willamette here in Portland, then it's a frigging nasty river to be swimming in. But from the looks of things, it's safer than anywhere else in London. Just don't swallow any water. I've been liking the series so far; job well done, Si.

One of the things I'm really enjoying about WYWH is the sense of place, the knowledge that the setting is a real place that one could visit.

That setting also gives the story a really ominous tone (no mean feat, given what's gone before!). While isolating themselves does give them some degree of safety, they're also very much trapped. I love that. They're almost literally treading water.

I must congratulate @Horrible Warning Si on creating such a compelling story. A case of life imitating art from the Guardian website:"An eyewitness said that Eugene was "like a zombie", tearing off almost all of 65-year-old Ronald Poppo's face and growling like a wild animal at an officer who shot him. Eugene was naked and Poppo was wearing only a shirt when police arrived..." Link to article

I don't know. I think a lot of that has to do with the tone and nature of the viewpoint characters. FREAKANGELS was viewed through the eyes of the superpowered psychic 'angels and their semi-sidekick, Alice. None of the story took place through the eyes of the native Whitechaplers. Plus you had stuff like people unshooting guns, putting up moats of time and coming back from the dead. That's going to tend to heighten one's sense of unreality.

But I've read dozens if not hundreds of books and comics with scenes set in the White House (and seen just as many or more movies) but I've no idea of what route you'd take from the main foyer to get to the Oval Office.

I have to echo what others are saying about the sense of place. Cava and the Scapa Flow are almost characters in the story themselves. I actually googled a map of the area and read up about it on wikipedia, and normally I'm a skip-the-map kind of guy when I pick up the sort of story that starts off wih one.

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